TEI Workshop 10. ROMA Summer 2010

My schema and me Remember that for a digitization project all XML must be valid against a schema. You can use a schema in two ways Write it yourself Use someone else’s (e.g. international standards like MIX, MathML, XHTML, NewsML) Use TEI and customize it

Getting a TEI Schema XML CopyEditor, Oxygen and other applications might come with certain schemas out of the box (TEI, XHTML, DocBook...) Get one from Roma

Modules structure of TEI TEITEi is made up of 22 modules that group related elements and attributes. The verse module e.g. contains special elements and attributes for use with poetry Mandatory modules: tei teiHeader textstruc core

choose from 18 other modules verse Module linking Module gaiji Module Module textstruc Module header Module core Module tei Module

Go to ROMA With the ROMA interface you can create and customize a TEI schema by: Choose TEI modules Delete unneeded elements from modules Restrict attribute values Create new elements Change language of documentation

Go to ROMA ROMA returns you: The so-called ODD (one-document-does it all) customization file, where your changes are recorded ( .xml). (Don’t loose this) You schema (.rnc, .rng, .xsd, .dtd) (Relax NG compact, Relax NG XML-syntax, W3C Schema, DTD) (Optional:) Documentation (.html, .pdf, LateX...)

Add/delete modules

Download ODD file

Download schema

And now The ODD file contains the record of our customizations. We need the ODD file for further changes. After the first creation of a schema we want to upload the ODD file for our project and make further changes based on it. Point your XML editor/parser to your schema and validate your files Most editors support concurrent validation, ie. validation as you type.

Exercise Part 1: Get a minimal schema from ROMA (Build Schema). Try to validate "songCrossing" Part 2: Try to identify what elements are not in the schema and add the module that contains the elements. Go back to ROMA upload your ODD file, add the modules, download new ODD file and schema Always click "save, start, submit" at the bottom

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